Volume 1 - CH 16

Now what skills would be good right now? If I had to say what was missing in my life at the moment, it would have to be where I live. It would be good if I could get a skill to help out in that area.

With that in mind, I’m aiming for a construction type skill. I expect that I should be able to get it from a silver orb. So, for now, I’ll pray for lots of silver orbs.

Of course, I still want some rainbow orbs, but if I end up with too many of them it would kind of suck. I prayed to god for now. It felt like I was using a lifetime worth of wishes every time.

I gave the gacha a roll while praying heavily. A golden chest appeared. There’s probably only a single rainbow orb inside, I thought, but the chest didn’t open.

W- what? As I thought in surprise, the chest changed colour from gold to rainbow. W- what’s with this!? Then the orbs came out from the chest.

Four bronze, three silver, two gold, two rainbow… What was that spectacle? It upgraded from a gold box to a rainbow box? Some kind of level up animation? Well, not that I really have any expectations for rainbow.

Eh, it’s fine, I guess. It was an extravagant problem anyway. For starters I checked the bronze orbs.

Well, I guess this part’s about the same as usual. If I get their levels up to 100, then it would give me a 100% status increase so they’re the late bloomer type of skills. I’m looking forward to their growth from now on.

Next up are the silver ones. These are the ones I have the strongest hopes for so…. please!

Spear technique is the spear version of sword technique huh. Don’t really have any use for it at the moment. I wonder what’s up with perception technique? When I don’t know something, I’d better ask appraisal.

…I see. It lets me know where my enemies are. I’ll give it a try. …It seems there aren’t any monsters around here. It seems if I use it with map making technique the positions of enemies are shown on the map.

I get that much, but it doesn’t seem like the range of perception technique is that far right now. It wouldn’t be a great idea to rely on it too much. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s a handy skill though. It might really help save time in searching for monsters from now on.

After checking out my new skills, it was time to move on to the gold orbs. There were two gold orbs this time. I would be happy to get a new kind of magic like I did yesterday but…

Oh, light magic is new. It’s not a bad skill. Up until now all I’ve had to rely on for light was fire magic, but from now on I’ll be able to safely use light magic. Fire magic has a chance of starting a forest fire after all.

In the one in a million chance a fire started, no one would be able to stop it. Finally, it’s time for the rainbow ones. Two rainbow orbs came out this time.

Ah, good thing it wasn’t appraisal. Perhaps this means appraisal won’t come out anymore? I’d be glad if that were the case. While thinking so I strengthened my skills.

Now for the results of todays work. I confirmed my basic stats.

Thanks to my fight with the honey bear my basic stats went up a lot more than I thought they would. Especially magic, since I used slashing technique a lot it went up quite a bit. Other than that, would be stamina. Up until now I hadn’t really taken many hits, but I ate a powerful attack from the honey bear.

With my stamina higher I shouldn’t be at quite as high of a risk of dying from a hit in battle from now on but… this also proves that in order to raise my stamina I need to eat some attacks. …Well, I hope to raise it enough to not die.

Next, I checked my skills.

Magic enhancement, cooking technique, and doctor leveled up from the gacha this time. My basic stats went up a bit, but it wasn’t really that much.

What I’m most happy about was cooking technique. The one thing I have to look forward to here in the lower world is cooking after all. Without cooking I might lose sight of the meaning of living. Right now, I live to find new ingredients and eat them.

That’s why I’m really happy to have cooking technique level up. The next thing I was happy about was doctor. Doctor has also reached the max level. This pretty much confirms the fact that the skills from rainbow orbs all have a max level of 3.

After this I just need one more cultivation. If the gacha is nice then I should have that all finished up with the next gacha. But right now, the only new monster I’ve found would be the honey bear. Unless I find another monster, this might be the end of my easy point farming.

I gave light magic a try right away. …A small light floated in my hand. It’s a lot less bright than I expected. Probably because it’s only level one. The other magics were also pretty much useless at the start.

But with this I was able to light up my small room. I couldn’t really use fire to light up my tiny, sealed room after all.

I flopped down into my resting space and used earth magic to mostly cover the entrance as I thought. What should I do tomorrow… Should I check out the western area? After that, maybe I’ll hunt some honey bears? As I thought about various things, I drifted off to sleep.